Exclusive: Composer Ólafur Arnalds, who won a Bafta for his work on Broadchurch and had compositions featured on Nomadland and The Hunger Games, has boarded documentary Ari’s Theme as executive producer ahead of its world premiere at Hot Docs.
Nathan Drillot and Jeff Lee Petry’s work follows the real-life figure of Ari Kinarthy, a 34 year old music composer with the rare genetic condition Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2, which causes his muscles to deteriorate and will shorten his life.
By sixteen, he had lost the ability to move his arms but through a music therapy program he was introduced to composing, finding his life’s purpose.
The documentary follows Kinarthy 18 years later as he embarks on the project to create the soundtrack of the most impactful memories of his young life in a bid to leave legacy.
“We can’t ever know how long we’ll be remembered or what impact we really made.
Nathan Drillot and Jeff Lee Petry’s work follows the real-life figure of Ari Kinarthy, a 34 year old music composer with the rare genetic condition Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2, which causes his muscles to deteriorate and will shorten his life.
By sixteen, he had lost the ability to move his arms but through a music therapy program he was introduced to composing, finding his life’s purpose.
The documentary follows Kinarthy 18 years later as he embarks on the project to create the soundtrack of the most impactful memories of his young life in a bid to leave legacy.
“We can’t ever know how long we’ll be remembered or what impact we really made.
- 4/26/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
This new Italian series The Good Mothers, offers a unique twist on the crime genre: this is the mafia seen entirely from the women’s perspectives. The series is a multifaceted, choral work that tells the true story of three women, raised within the fiercest and richest clans of ‘Ndrangheta. They decide to cooperate with a courageous magistrate working to destroy it from within. These women will then have to fight against their own families for the right to survive and build a new future for themselves and their children.
A Star Original for Disney+, the series is directed by BAFTA and Emmy nominee Julian Jarrold and Elisa Amoruso (Sirly, Chiara Ferragni: Unposted) and executive produced by Juliette Howell and Tessa Ross for House Productions (Brexit: The Uncivil War) and Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Gangarossa for Wildside, written by BAFTA Award-winning Stephen Butchard (Baghdad Central), and based on the...
A Star Original for Disney+, the series is directed by BAFTA and Emmy nominee Julian Jarrold and Elisa Amoruso (Sirly, Chiara Ferragni: Unposted) and executive produced by Juliette Howell and Tessa Ross for House Productions (Brexit: The Uncivil War) and Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Gangarossa for Wildside, written by BAFTA Award-winning Stephen Butchard (Baghdad Central), and based on the...
- 2/20/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Sandrayati has always been earth’s gentle admirer. Her life and music are intertwined with nature’s authenticity, illuminated by each stage of society’s oldest rhythm. Welcoming us into her tranquil world, Sandrayati’s brand new single “Vast” (out now on Decca Records/Universal Music Canada), featuring Ólafur Arnalds, circles four stages of a woman’s menstrual cycle, which mirror “the new moon”, “the waxing moon”, “the full moon” and “the waning moon”.
Whilst the first single from her upcoming album, ‘Suara Dunia’, was inspired by indigenous wisdom in connection with the earth, ‘Vast’ appears more abstract. In the writing process, Sandrayati imagined that she was an element of nature singing to humankind. In the music video, the cycle is a symbol of the closest relationship humans have with the rhythm in nature. Nearly four billion people in the world have a menstrual cycle, yet it is a topic many shy away from.
Whilst the first single from her upcoming album, ‘Suara Dunia’, was inspired by indigenous wisdom in connection with the earth, ‘Vast’ appears more abstract. In the writing process, Sandrayati imagined that she was an element of nature singing to humankind. In the music video, the cycle is a symbol of the closest relationship humans have with the rhythm in nature. Nearly four billion people in the world have a menstrual cycle, yet it is a topic many shy away from.
- 1/28/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
We must take better care of this planet. We must change our ways and save what we can before it's too late. We must stop treating this planet like an endless mine to make money from. This excellent documentary is a potent reminder we must do more to protect our planet and its natural resources from greedy investors and rich schmucks who simply can't give up their addiction to profiting off of Earth's offerings. Doc filmmaker Matthieu Rytz returns to Sundance (following his 2018 doc Anote's Ark) with his latest feature film titled Deep Rising, a documentary about a precious resource hidden at the bottom of the ocean. I'm always on the hunt for splendid documentaries at Sundance, and this is one of my favorites so far. Not only is it about something important, something I didn't know anything about before watching, but it's an engaging doc in every way. Featuring a score by Ólafur Arnalds,...
- 1/22/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Music festival Iceland Airwaves will return to Reykjavík, Iceland after two years of cancellations due to the Covid pandemic. The annual festival, last held in 2019, has announced it will take place November 2-5 with an initial line-up that includes Arlo Parks, Metronomy, Crack Cloud, and Amyl & the Sniffers.
Local band Daughters of Reykjavík, favorites to represent Iceland at the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, will also appear. The news comes after Iceland dropped all Covid restrictions, including on international travel to the country.
We're back!
Boy oh boy have we missed you!
Local band Daughters of Reykjavík, favorites to represent Iceland at the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, will also appear. The news comes after Iceland dropped all Covid restrictions, including on international travel to the country.
We're back!
Boy oh boy have we missed you!
- 3/23/2022
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Rammstein’s video for “Zeit,” the title track for their upcoming album, is the typically surrealistic and sensational kind of clip people expect from the German industro-metal group.
There are shots of people drowning, scary wraith-like figures menacing kids in a fight, and the band members delivering babies as the sands of time surround them — all in reverse. It’s a visual feast, courtesy of director Robert Gwisdek, for an epic ballad in the group’s signature style, as frontman Till Lindemann sings in German about wishing time to stand still.
There are shots of people drowning, scary wraith-like figures menacing kids in a fight, and the band members delivering babies as the sands of time surround them — all in reverse. It’s a visual feast, courtesy of director Robert Gwisdek, for an epic ballad in the group’s signature style, as frontman Till Lindemann sings in German about wishing time to stand still.
- 3/10/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Nominees for the 63rd annual Grammy Awards were announced Tuesday and they include Billie Eilish, Doja Cat and Olivia Rodrigo. Top honors went out to Jon Baptiste who earned a total of 11 nominations.
The reveal by the Recording Academy came as the organization expanded the lists of nominees to 10 in marquee categories Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist.
Among the nominees, Eilish returns with seven nominees — the same number she swept wins for in 2020. Batiste, who is known for his role on CBS’ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, scored the most noms today after coming off an Oscar Score win earlier this year for Soul alongside Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
The Grammys return to Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena (fka Staples Center) on January 31, 2022, and will broadcast live on CBS and stream live and on-demand on Paramount+ at 8-11:30 p.
The reveal by the Recording Academy came as the organization expanded the lists of nominees to 10 in marquee categories Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist.
Among the nominees, Eilish returns with seven nominees — the same number she swept wins for in 2020. Batiste, who is known for his role on CBS’ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, scored the most noms today after coming off an Oscar Score win earlier this year for Soul alongside Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
The Grammys return to Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena (fka Staples Center) on January 31, 2022, and will broadcast live on CBS and stream live and on-demand on Paramount+ at 8-11:30 p.
- 11/23/2021
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
The veteran DJ/producer Bonobo balances languor and propulsion on “6000 Ft,” a new collaboration with Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs that was released on Friday.
“6000 Ft.” follows “Heartbreak,” another track with Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs which came out in September. These tracks mark the first releases through Bonobo’s new label, Outlier. “‘Heartbreak’ seems like a good starting point and was the track that became the catalyst to start the label — one for the dance floors in a time when they’re dearly missed,” Bonobo explained in a statement. While “Heartbreak” is ferocious,...
“6000 Ft.” follows “Heartbreak,” another track with Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs which came out in September. These tracks mark the first releases through Bonobo’s new label, Outlier. “‘Heartbreak’ seems like a good starting point and was the track that became the catalyst to start the label — one for the dance floors in a time when they’re dearly missed,” Bonobo explained in a statement. While “Heartbreak” is ferocious,...
- 11/16/2020
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
A main title sequence is often the only part of a show in which music can take center stage, and usually for just a minute. But it can also be the biggest challenge for a composer, who must somehow encapsulate the ideas, the story, the characters and the milieu of a series. This year, the Television Academy nominated six main title themes by five different composers. They range from big-band jazz to serious symphonic composition, from theater organ to analog synth sounds and even classic hip-hop.
Carnival Row
(Amazon)
A few years ago, composer Nathan Barr found, bought and lovingly restored a 1928 Wurlitzer pipe organ that had once occupied the 20th Century Fox scoring stage. With “Carnival Row,” the Victorian-era fantasy about mythical creatures fleeing war and prejudice, Barr found the perfect vehicle to showcase the instrument. “The filmmakers were constantly telling me to add more organ because they loved its grand and unusual sound,...
Carnival Row
(Amazon)
A few years ago, composer Nathan Barr found, bought and lovingly restored a 1928 Wurlitzer pipe organ that had once occupied the 20th Century Fox scoring stage. With “Carnival Row,” the Victorian-era fantasy about mythical creatures fleeing war and prejudice, Barr found the perfect vehicle to showcase the instrument. “The filmmakers were constantly telling me to add more organ because they loved its grand and unusual sound,...
- 8/27/2020
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Iceland Airwaves was an idea more than a festival in its first year. The inaugural event, held in October 1999, was a modest one-night bill presented in an airplane hangar at Reykjavík Airport. The headliners were an electro-dance collective with a strong U.K. buzz, GusGus, and a trio of young alt-rock alchemists, Sigur Rós, whose extraordinary second album, Ágaetis byrjun (“A Good Beginning”), was an immediate hit in Iceland but not yet out anywhere else. A more official launch in 2000 — as Iceland Airwaves — was more ambitious and worldly with both...
- 11/5/2018
- by David Fricke
- Rollingstone.com
On his first solo project since 2013, Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds adds a new element – robots! – to his mix of post-minimalist repetition, indie swoon, film score frisson and ambient drifts. Re: Member is a conversation between Arnalds and algorithms, the programmed and the human, his own intentions and new inspirations, composed with a software called Straus connected to two player pianos.
Nothing here has the unfamiliar, inhuman shocks of a John Cage indeterminate work, a John Zorn game piece or Autechre’s recent robo-dialogue. Instead it’s Arnalds’ signature gorgeous melancholy...
Nothing here has the unfamiliar, inhuman shocks of a John Cage indeterminate work, a John Zorn game piece or Autechre’s recent robo-dialogue. Instead it’s Arnalds’ signature gorgeous melancholy...
- 8/24/2018
- by Christopher R. Weingarten
- Rollingstone.com
Gemma Jones, Daniel Wolfe and Peter Mullan among guests to attend upcoming 11th Glasgow Film Festival.
Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) has announced the next wave of guests set to attend its upcoming 11th edition, taking place Feb 18-March 1.
Veteran actors Gemma Jones and Richard Johnson will attend in support of Tom Browne’s debut Radiator which is nominated for the inaugural Audience Award, while Catch Me Daddy director Daniel Wolfe and the film’s stars Conor McCarron and Gary Lewis will also be in Glasgow.
Peter Mullan and Morvern Christie are both set to take part in masterclasses on editing and casting as part of the Behind the Scenes programme strand at this year’s festival.
The festival’s FrightFest guests include director April Mullen and writer Tom Doiron for 88, director Hans Herbot for The Treatment, director Russell Gomm for The Woods Movie and director Matt Winn for The Hoarder.
Other guests...
Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) has announced the next wave of guests set to attend its upcoming 11th edition, taking place Feb 18-March 1.
Veteran actors Gemma Jones and Richard Johnson will attend in support of Tom Browne’s debut Radiator which is nominated for the inaugural Audience Award, while Catch Me Daddy director Daniel Wolfe and the film’s stars Conor McCarron and Gary Lewis will also be in Glasgow.
Peter Mullan and Morvern Christie are both set to take part in masterclasses on editing and casting as part of the Behind the Scenes programme strand at this year’s festival.
The festival’s FrightFest guests include director April Mullen and writer Tom Doiron for 88, director Hans Herbot for The Treatment, director Russell Gomm for The Woods Movie and director Matt Winn for The Hoarder.
Other guests...
- 2/6/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Fantastic Four has premiered its first trailer online.
The superhero reboot stars Miles Teller as Reed Richards, with Kate Mara as Sue Storm, Michael B Jordan as Johnny Storm and Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm.
Chronicle director Josh Trank is behind the camera for the Marvel adaptation, which marks the superteam's first big-screen outing since 2007's Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
The trailer is soundtracked by Ólafur Arnalds's 'Main Theme' from ITV crime drama Broadchurch.
The previous incarnation of the Fantastic Four, starring Jessica Alba and Chris Evans, earned more than $600 million at the worldwide box office.
The new Fantastic Four film is reportedly inspired by Marvel's Ultimate comic book series.
The movie will open in cinemas on August 6. Watch star Miles Teller discuss his involvement in the series below:...
The superhero reboot stars Miles Teller as Reed Richards, with Kate Mara as Sue Storm, Michael B Jordan as Johnny Storm and Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm.
Chronicle director Josh Trank is behind the camera for the Marvel adaptation, which marks the superteam's first big-screen outing since 2007's Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
The trailer is soundtracked by Ólafur Arnalds's 'Main Theme' from ITV crime drama Broadchurch.
The previous incarnation of the Fantastic Four, starring Jessica Alba and Chris Evans, earned more than $600 million at the worldwide box office.
The new Fantastic Four film is reportedly inspired by Marvel's Ultimate comic book series.
The movie will open in cinemas on August 6. Watch star Miles Teller discuss his involvement in the series below:...
- 1/27/2015
- Digital Spy
11th edition of festival to close with UK premiere of Force Majeure, and will feature 33 UK premieres and a record 11 world premieres.
While We’re Young is to receive its European premiere as the opening film of the 11th Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) (Feb 18-Mar 1).
Noah Baumbach’s comedy stars Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as a settled married couple who are offered a second chance at youth when hipsters Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried) come into their lives. The film premiered at Toronto International Film Festival last year.
This year’s festival will close with the UK premiere of Cannes Jury Prize-winner Force Majeure, written and directed by Ruben Östlund. The film explores the flaws and cracks in a marriage after an avalanche hits in the French Alps where the couple are on a skiing holiday with their children.
Supported by Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, EventScotland, Creative Scotland and BFI, this year’s...
While We’re Young is to receive its European premiere as the opening film of the 11th Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) (Feb 18-Mar 1).
Noah Baumbach’s comedy stars Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as a settled married couple who are offered a second chance at youth when hipsters Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried) come into their lives. The film premiered at Toronto International Film Festival last year.
This year’s festival will close with the UK premiere of Cannes Jury Prize-winner Force Majeure, written and directed by Ruben Östlund. The film explores the flaws and cracks in a marriage after an avalanche hits in the French Alps where the couple are on a skiing holiday with their children.
Supported by Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, EventScotland, Creative Scotland and BFI, this year’s...
- 1/21/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
The composer of the score for Broadchurch has revealed that there are clues to the killer in the music for the first series.
Ólafur Arnalds told The Independent that show creator Chris Chibnall asked for "intimacy and a purity" to fit the feel of the show.
"There was a theme for each character and there was always a slightly different theme for the person revealed as the killer," Arnalds said.
"We left some clues in there. If you watch the first series again and pay attention, the music lets you know who the killer is."
He continued: "People who listen closely can get a little sense of what's going to happen in series two.
"This series, the musical theme is more about Broadchurch as a town rather than individual characters. It's broader, it's about unifying everything."
Of claims that the score was distracting and too loud in the series two opener,...
Ólafur Arnalds told The Independent that show creator Chris Chibnall asked for "intimacy and a purity" to fit the feel of the show.
"There was a theme for each character and there was always a slightly different theme for the person revealed as the killer," Arnalds said.
"We left some clues in there. If you watch the first series again and pay attention, the music lets you know who the killer is."
He continued: "People who listen closely can get a little sense of what's going to happen in series two.
"This series, the musical theme is more about Broadchurch as a town rather than individual characters. It's broader, it's about unifying everything."
Of claims that the score was distracting and too loud in the series two opener,...
- 1/12/2015
- Digital Spy
Doctor Who's 50th anniversary programming won at the 2014 BAFTA TV Craft Awards in London tonight (April 27).
'The Day of The Doctor' - which featured Matt Smith, David Tennant and John Hurt - won the prize for Special, Visual and Graphic Effects, while biopic An Adventure in Space and Time won for Make Up and Hair Design.
BBC Two's Peaky Blinders also picked up two prizes at the ceremony, including Photography and Lighting, and Best Director - Fiction for Otto Bathurst.
Broadchurch composer Ólafur Arnalds won the award for Original Television Music for his work on the popular ITV crime series, which starred Tennant and Olivia Colman.
Downton Abbey won for Costume Design, while Ripper Street won for Production Design, and Educating Yorkshire scooped the prize for Editing - Factual.
The team behind Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway were named Entertainment Craft Team 2014, while The X Factor took home the award for Multi-Camera Direction.
'The Day of The Doctor' - which featured Matt Smith, David Tennant and John Hurt - won the prize for Special, Visual and Graphic Effects, while biopic An Adventure in Space and Time won for Make Up and Hair Design.
BBC Two's Peaky Blinders also picked up two prizes at the ceremony, including Photography and Lighting, and Best Director - Fiction for Otto Bathurst.
Broadchurch composer Ólafur Arnalds won the award for Original Television Music for his work on the popular ITV crime series, which starred Tennant and Olivia Colman.
Downton Abbey won for Costume Design, while Ripper Street won for Production Design, and Educating Yorkshire scooped the prize for Editing - Factual.
The team behind Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway were named Entertainment Craft Team 2014, while The X Factor took home the award for Multi-Camera Direction.
- 4/27/2014
- Digital Spy
Quite often, TV soundtracks are only mentioned when they're particularly bad. A clunking tune or wobbly composition can turn a beautiful, tense or dramatic TV moment and stink out the whole scene.
But what about the great soundtracks? The ones that make a good moment great. The tunes that give TV shows swagger. Digital Spy has picked out the 10 TV show soundtracks from 2013 that have rocked, helped us get our groove on or made us cry.
1. Peaky Blinders
The Brummie gangster drama, which ended this week, was beautifully shot, brilliantly acted and deliciously dark. The cherry on the top of the flat caps was the soundtrack. Tom Waits, the White Stripes, the Raconteurs and a hefty topping of the brilliant Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
2. Broadchurch
The TV phenomenon of 2013's soundtrack matched its content. Eerie, brimming with drama and totally captivating, the music of Ólafur Arnalds was almost as...
But what about the great soundtracks? The ones that make a good moment great. The tunes that give TV shows swagger. Digital Spy has picked out the 10 TV show soundtracks from 2013 that have rocked, helped us get our groove on or made us cry.
1. Peaky Blinders
The Brummie gangster drama, which ended this week, was beautifully shot, brilliantly acted and deliciously dark. The cherry on the top of the flat caps was the soundtrack. Tom Waits, the White Stripes, the Raconteurs and a hefty topping of the brilliant Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
2. Broadchurch
The TV phenomenon of 2013's soundtrack matched its content. Eerie, brimming with drama and totally captivating, the music of Ólafur Arnalds was almost as...
- 10/18/2013
- Digital Spy
Quite often, TV soundtracks are only mentioned when they're particularly bad. A clunking tune or wobbly composition can turn a beautiful, tense or dramatic TV moment and stink out the whole scene.
But what about the great soundtracks? The ones that make a good moment great. The tunes that give TV shows swagger. Digital Spy has picked out the 10 TV show soundtracks from 2013 that have rocked, helped us get our groove on or made us cry.
1. Peaky Blinders
The Brummie gangster drama, which ended this week, was beautifully shot, brilliantly acted and deliciously dark. The cherry on the top of the flat caps was the soundtrack. Tom Waits, the White Stripes, the Raconteurs and a hefty topping of the brilliant Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
2. Broadchurch
The TV phenomenon of 2013's soundtrack matched its content. Eerie, brimming with drama and totally captivating, the music of Ólafur Arnalds was almost as...
But what about the great soundtracks? The ones that make a good moment great. The tunes that give TV shows swagger. Digital Spy has picked out the 10 TV show soundtracks from 2013 that have rocked, helped us get our groove on or made us cry.
1. Peaky Blinders
The Brummie gangster drama, which ended this week, was beautifully shot, brilliantly acted and deliciously dark. The cherry on the top of the flat caps was the soundtrack. Tom Waits, the White Stripes, the Raconteurs and a hefty topping of the brilliant Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
2. Broadchurch
The TV phenomenon of 2013's soundtrack matched its content. Eerie, brimming with drama and totally captivating, the music of Ólafur Arnalds was almost as...
- 10/18/2013
- Digital Spy
Icelandic artist Ólafur Arnalds has released a music video for his track “Old Skin.” The track is from his forthcoming LP with Nico Muhly, For Now I Am Winter. “We were thinking about what would be the last thing you would expect to see in an Ólafur Arnalds video and we came onto this ‘high brow’ versus ‘low brow’ culture,” said Arnalds. “We didn’t want to go the standard ‘icelandic nature’ style, although we do sort of start with that, but it takes a complete U-turn in the middle.” Arnalds said that he was happy with the way the video...
- 2/22/2013
- Pastemagazine.com
When in Iceland.... While Emma Watson spent some time in Bjork's homeland this summer to shoot Darren Aronofsky's upcoming "Noah," she used her time off to hang another musical talent on the island. Iceland Review reports that Watson spent a day haning out with Icelandic musician and composer Ólafur Arnalds, and they were joined by Watson's pal Ben Hammersley. Nope, she wasnt' recording any music, so she won't be joining the ranks of actor/musicians like Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe, Juliette Lewis or Kevin Bacon anytime soon. As for Arnalds, he's best known in indie circles, but you may have heard his work on the score to last year's "Another Happy Day" starring Ellen Barkin. So there you go. Meanwhile, Watson is staying busy as ever, and next month she'll be chatting up press for "The Perks Of Being A Wallflower." The upcoming film, based on the popular book by Stephen Chbosky,...
- 8/24/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen the July 18 episode of Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance."
This week's comments, questions and concerns come without any technical dance knowledge and no actual dance skills ... just straight up love for "So You Think You Can Dance."
Guest Judge: Adam Shankman
So here is how the show will work tonight: The 10 couples will proceed as if this were a normal performance show until the last 20 minutes when the bottom six will be revealed. We'll stop for a quick plug of guest judge Adam Shankman's, new film "Step Up Revolution" (including a live routine with fan favorites and former contestants Twitch, Kathryn and Phillip) and then finally, the bottom six will face the music and the judges will save one guy and one girl.
Let's get right to it and rip the first band aid off. Here are...
This week's comments, questions and concerns come without any technical dance knowledge and no actual dance skills ... just straight up love for "So You Think You Can Dance."
Guest Judge: Adam Shankman
So here is how the show will work tonight: The 10 couples will proceed as if this were a normal performance show until the last 20 minutes when the bottom six will be revealed. We'll stop for a quick plug of guest judge Adam Shankman's, new film "Step Up Revolution" (including a live routine with fan favorites and former contestants Twitch, Kathryn and Phillip) and then finally, the bottom six will face the music and the judges will save one guy and one girl.
Let's get right to it and rip the first band aid off. Here are...
- 7/19/2012
- by Katelyn Mullen
- Aol TV.
After a really thrilling opener set to Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People" (choreographed by Tabitha and Napoleon?! What?!), we get to finding out which ill-fated foursome will be packing their bags on So You Think You Can Dance. But in a strange turn of events, every couple will perform before the elimination is announced, which means that whichever unlucky couples ship out will have hit the stage for nothing. This week's rankings:
1) Janaya & Brandon (last week: 4) have to get hip to Shawn Cheesman's Broadway to Linda Eder's "Bring On The Men", and I am obsessed with this number. Janaya could have used slightly more grit, but this is the first number of the entire season that I needed to watch again. Brandon did a fine job here, but with the music and the choreography, this really was his partner's piece to dominate, and she had to be all...
1) Janaya & Brandon (last week: 4) have to get hip to Shawn Cheesman's Broadway to Linda Eder's "Bring On The Men", and I am obsessed with this number. Janaya could have used slightly more grit, but this is the first number of the entire season that I needed to watch again. Brandon did a fine job here, but with the music and the choreography, this really was his partner's piece to dominate, and she had to be all...
- 7/19/2012
- by Terron R. Moore
- TVology
The 'young adult' bestseller is set to turn into a series of four movies. But similarities with Twilight end there says Lawrence, the movie's star
Jennifer Lawrence has gone a bit Howard Hughes. "I've started cleaning obsessively," she says. "I wake up early and start scrubbing my house. At first I thought, 'Oh, I'm just in a clean mood', but then I was like, 'No, I'm losing my mind!'"
An Academy Award nominee at 20, the Kentucky-born actor is now set for mainstream success with The Hunger Games, a cinematic adaptation of Suzanne Collins's hugely popular "young adult" novel. Given she's enjoying what she describes as "the anxiety of getting my life turned upside-down", obsessive cleaning might seem to be quite a tame response.
Set in a dystopian post-America now known as Panem, where an elite preside over a starving, benighted working class, The Hunger Games centres around a...
Jennifer Lawrence has gone a bit Howard Hughes. "I've started cleaning obsessively," she says. "I wake up early and start scrubbing my house. At first I thought, 'Oh, I'm just in a clean mood', but then I was like, 'No, I'm losing my mind!'"
An Academy Award nominee at 20, the Kentucky-born actor is now set for mainstream success with The Hunger Games, a cinematic adaptation of Suzanne Collins's hugely popular "young adult" novel. Given she's enjoying what she describes as "the anxiety of getting my life turned upside-down", obsessive cleaning might seem to be quite a tame response.
Set in a dystopian post-America now known as Panem, where an elite preside over a starving, benighted working class, The Hunger Games centres around a...
- 3/19/2012
- by Gwilym Mumford
- The Guardian - Film News
Is Iceland the hot new home of film composing? Maybe at least for the moment. Sigur Ros frontman Jónsi has found a new collaborator in Cameron Crowe, not only scoring "We Bought Zoo," but the director's next effort as well, and he's not the only native of Iceland to tune up a movie last year. Former metalhead turned producer and composer Ólafur Arnalds lent his skills to "Another Happy Day," the Sundance winner for Best Screenplay that found Ellen Barkin basking in rave reviews for her performance for much of 2011. Well, with the film, currently available digitally and on VOD (with a handful of theaters running it this weekend), Erased Tapes is currently pulling together a soundtrack release of Arnalds score for the film. And talking with Cmu, he fully credits Barkin for enabling him to land the gig. Director Sam Levinson had been listening to his music as he was putting together the movie,...
- 1/12/2012
- The Playlist
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